"We are very glad that this case has found a happy ending for us after some 12 years," Peter Riegelein, head of the family-owned Confiserie Riegelein, said in a statement.

"The sitting gold-wrapped bunny has been a firm part of our offering for at least a half century," he said. "Now it is finally clear that it can stay as it is."

Last year, the European Union Court of Justice upheld a decision of the EU trademarks agency OHIM, which rejected Lindt's application for a trademark of its sitting bunny shapes wrapped in gold foil with a red ribbon bow tie.

Earlier last year, however, an Austrian court ruled that family-owned rival Hauswirth could no longer produce Easter bunnies that look like those made by Lindt.